Yangping Pass, located between the Grand Canyon of Yizhou and Hanzhong, is located between two dangerous peaks.

This pass has always been in the hands of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, but the ancient wall of Yangping Pass has existed since ancient times, and it is not newly built. No matter who is in the hands of this level, you can defend on both sides, and no matter which side you attack from, you can well resist the enemy who is coming.

The high gate wall is sandwiched by the canyon cliffs on both sides, and there is only one gate in the middle that can be passed. The cliffs on both sides are as high as 100 zhang, and even the mountain and forest special operations sergeants of the New Han Army dare not say that they can climb it. What's more, on the cliffs on both sides, there are still beneficial state troops on the defensive?

Therefore, if the New Han Army wants to capture Yangping Pass and open up the passage into Yizhou, it must forcibly capture Yangping Pass.

The pass was less than a mile wide, and the Xinhan army could only place ten trebuchets side by side, and three rows were placed, using a total of thirty trebuchets.

In the face of the ancient and solid majestic city wall, Guan Yu and Ma Chao and other generals did not hope that they could directly bombard the wall of Yangping Pass in earnest. However, the non-stop bombardment of the Xinhan army's trebuchets day and night, at the very least, can give the Yizhou army in Yangping Pass a continuous sense of pressure, so that the Yizhou army guarding the pass does not have a moment of peace to speak of.

The criterion of the trebuchet is indeed very accurate, except that it can basically control that every stone projectile can fall roughly within a certain range, and there is no way to aim if you want to accurately hit the target. However, thirty trebuchets threw stone projectiles together, which was too much. There were always some stone bullets that fell on the head of the walled city, causing limited damage to the Yizhou army.

And also. The area of the wall, although not too large. However, generally every time a round of stone bullets is thrown, there will always be a few stone bullets bombarded on the wall of the Yangping Pass, causing a sense of shock to the entire wall. In this way, it can also give the defenders of Yangping Pass a sense of fear.

At this time, the wall of Yangping Pass has been smashed into potholes and unevenness. Under the wall, there was also a layer of rubble.

Guan Yu and Ma Chao are very clear about attacking this Yangping Pass. It is necessary to attack strongly, but if it is attacked, the enemy has already been prepared, and the Yizhou army guarding the pass has sufficient troops, so there will be no shortage of manpower. In this way, if you are too eager to attack, you can even capture Yangping Pass in the end. I'm afraid they will all have to pay a relatively large price for casualties.

In this way, it was just a trebuchet to bombard the enemy army, and it was only used to paralyze the enemy, so that the defenders of the Yizhou army could not guess the plan of the New Han army.

This was a few days of bombardment. The Yizhou army guarding Yangping Pass has been bombarded a little numb. It seems that they have adapted to the continuous loud noise, to the shock of the stone projectiles dropped on the wall of the gate, and the stone bullets thrown into the gate.

Of course. The lethality of the stone projectile is indeed amazing, and every stone projectile that falls on the head of the wall. will take the lives of some Yizhou soldiers. In this way, when the New Han Army did not formally commit troops to storm its walls. The soldiers of the Yizhou Army are also proficient, and they generally do not send too many soldiers to the wall as they did at the beginning, and the arrangement of the soldiers is not too dense. Usually, it is a battlement, and one or two soldiers are left to observe, so that on the wall less than a mile long, it is estimated that there are only hundreds of soldiers observing. If they saw that the New Han army was attacking them, they would send a report to the back, so that the soldiers who were always ready in the pass quickly climbed the wall to guard the pass.

In this way, those soldiers of the Yizhou Army who are guarding the gate at the gate, they can only resign themselves to fate and see whose luck is better.

Because, there will always be some stone bullets smashed on the wall, and the stone bullets will fall, even if they don't directly hit the soldiers who are hiding in shape, but the stone bullets will burst into the gravel, which is enough to kill the soldiers near the stone bullet landing point.

I have to say that the soldiers of the Yizhou Army who are on duty at the head of the wall, whenever it is their turn to climb the wall to guard the pass, they are all frightened, and they are all worried. After all, no one knows when a stone projectile from the trebuchet of the New Han Army will fall on their heads, and if it falls near their bodies, then they will have only a dead end.

Three days later, it was another two days, and the Yizhou army in Yangping Pass was directly tossed to the point that it had no temper at all.

Of course, in fact, it is not a non-stop bombardment, generally every time the bombardment is a while, some generals of the New Han Army will be sent to the wall to call for a battle, and the sergeants on both sides will scold for a while, and then the New Han Army will throw stone bombs at them.

The New Han Army was like this, and it really made Meng Shu completely lose his temper.

Although he was unwilling in his heart, so what? There is a kind of him going out to fight the generals of the New Han Army? Outside the mountain pass, Meng Huo was already frightened by the New Han Army, and he lost 100,000 barbarian troops at once, and Meng Huo has been heartbroken until now.

The fighting generals can't fight, and the military horses can't fight against them, what else can he do?

During the period when the New Han Army advanced to Yangping Pass, it was all the New Han Army that pressed them to fight, so that they couldn't raise their heads, and they could only stare dryly. It can be said that Meng Shu has never tried to be so depressed. In the Nanban region, what kind of battle did he not fight? Those more dangerous terrain, the more difficult to attack barbarian tribes, haven't they been defeated and subdued by him? But in the face of the New Han Army, he had a feeling of being restrained everywhere, and he wanted to bite the New Han Army, but he broke his teeth.

The generals can't fight alone, the soldiers can't fight against each other, and the weapons and equipment lag behind the New Han Army, what kind of strategy do you use? Now what can he think of to counter the New Han Army's strategy?

Well, if the New Han army advances to attack the city under the wall, Meng Shu is not afraid, at least, he uses the wall to be condescending, and he has more ways to kill and injure the New Han army under the wall, and even, on the cliffs on both sides, he can also push down heavy objects and smash the New Han army below.

But the New Han army really became a refinement, and the place where they set up their formation, especially the place where their trebuchets were arranged, happened to be a mile away from the wall, and it was out of reach of them to push down the heavy objects from the cliff. This really made Meng Shu completely helpless.

To be honest, Meng Shu has begun to doubt these days. What is the point of defending the New Han Army so passively with his own army. And so on. How long can it be held?

At this time, Meng Shu had already had the idea of going. After seeing the strength of the New Han Army with his own eyes. Meng Shu realized that he was just a frog at the bottom of a well. Originally, I thought that with my barbarian army, it was enough to fight against all the armies in this world, and it was enough to win in battle. But this was just a battle with the New Han army, and they lost 100,000 barbarian troops at once. Although he also has hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops, can he afford the loss of more tribal military horses?

Meng Huo finally faced up to the problem of the destruction of some powerful tribes such as the Xiongnu and Wuhuan at the hands of the New Han Army. He began to think about the future of his barbarians.

At this time, Meng Shu couldn't help but think of when he fell out with Mrs. Zhurong. Some of the things that the prince of the Li Yao tribe Agui had said to him. Meng Shu was worried that if the Li Yao tribe really submitted to the New Han Dynasty and really led the New Han army to attack his barbarian area through the Li Yao tribe's place, then he would not even have a place to stand.

Just to covet a little money and food that Liu Bei gave him, he put himself in a completely unfavorable situation? Is it worth it?

Obviously, the bloody lesson told Meng Shu that it was not worth it. 100,000 children of the tribe are gone. After he returns to the tribe, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to the clansmen.

Every time he thought of this, Meng Shu felt depressed and thought. took Yang Song, the guy who persuaded him to send troops to attack Hanzhong, to pay tribute to the tribal warriors who had been killed and wounded, but Yang Song's guy actually fled. fled to Chengdu.

Yang Ping, the general of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, also fled to Chengdu with Yang Song. This made it difficult for Meng Huo to find some people to vent his anger.

Other than that. In Yangping Pass, Meng Shu still has more than 30,000 barbarian troops. The rest were all Yizhou troops sent by Liu Bei. The leading generals were Yizhou generals such as Wu Ban, Chen Shi, and Huo Jun. These Yizhou generals are not too familiar with him Meng Shu, and they are only nodding to each other, Meng Shu feels that there is no need for him to stay in Yangping Pass to fight the Xinhan army, which is much stronger than his own army.

For this reason, Meng Huo really had a heart. He didn't get any good, what is he doing here? An alliance agreement with Liu Bei? Meng Shu didn't care at all, when he formed an alliance with Liu Bei, it was all nonsense to fight against the New Han Army, he just wanted to get some money and food. Moreover, at that time, I thought that the New Han Army and the ordinary Han army were undoubtedly some Han troops that were easier to deal with and were defeated with one blow. Only now did I find out that the New Han Army was already so strong that it made him stand tall on the mountain.

With this in mind, Meng Shu summoned a group of his subordinate generals to discuss with them how to leave Yangping Pass and lead his army and horses to completely evacuate Yizhou.

Of course, Meng Shu would definitely not retreat like this, he had to discuss with his subordinates how to loot in Yizhou and leave again.

The problem is that Meng Shu led a total of more than 200,000 barbarian troops into Sichuan, and lost 100,000 in the battle with the New Han army, as well as 100,000 horses. Among them, 60,000 or 70,000 horses were with Liu Bei in Badong City, led by other subordinate generals. Now, he only has about 30,000 people left by his side. Where can he plunder this little man?

Meng Huo's purpose was actually to loot Chengdu. He has been to Chengdu, has seen the prosperity of Chengdu, knows that Chengdu is rich, and only by plundering Chengdu can he get more wealth.

Secretly consulted with his subordinates, and soon reached an agreement. It is not possible to storm by force, but you can open the gate of Chengdu City, as long as his military horses enter Chengdu City, he will immediately loot Chengdu City, plunder it, and immediately withdraw from Xichuan.

On the one hand, he ordered someone to urgently report to the barbarian generals who were with Liu Bei, and asked them to find some excuses to transfer the army away. In addition, he immediately sent fast horses to get in touch with the barbarian army that had not entered Sichuan at the junction of Yizhou, and asked them to wave their troops to meet him.

After everything was planned and felt that nothing was wrong, Meng Huo decided to act according to the plan.

He was going to consult with Wu Ban, the guard general of Yangping Pass, and others, so he said that he was going to lead the military horses of his headquarters and find a small way to go around to the rear of the New Han army to attack the New Han army, so as to avenge his defeat to the New Han army and the loss of 100,000 barbarian troops. The Yizhou army has also seen the situation where the barbarian army can fly like a key in the deep mountains, so Meng Xu estimated that Wu Ban and other Yizhou generals would not be suspicious and would let them leave Yangping Pass. As long as he led the army to leave Yangping Pass, Meng Shu planned to lead 30,000 troops and horses to Chengdu.

After Meng Shu discussed with his subordinates, it was already midnight, and he would go to talk to Wu Ban and other Yizhou generals about it early tomorrow morning.

However, he didn't know that Meng Shu didn't have to find an excuse to tell Wu Ban and other Yizhou generals.

Because, it was this night that the New Han Army decided to attack Yangping Pass at night.

Wei Yan left his headquarters in Hanzhong to clear the remnants of Hanzhong, but he himself rushed to Yangping Pass with a small number of elite soldiers. He really didn't want to miss the big battle of attacking Yangping Pass.

In this way, he was just in time for this night attack.

Guan Yu and Ma Chao and other generals led the army to Yangping Pass, and never launched a strong attack, but only used trebuchets to bombard constantly, just to bombard the defenders numbly, and when they were unexpected, they suddenly attacked and broke through the pass in one fell swoop.

The sky was dark this night, especially between the canyons, it was as dark as ink, and I couldn't see my fingers.

In particular, the trebuchets of the New Han Army are still bombarding, and the roaring sound has been shaking between the valleys.

Ma Chao, Wei Yan, Guan Ping, and a group of generals dispatched less than a thousand people in total, and everyone's strength was equal to the elite of third-rate generals and above.

Guan Yu didn't participate, he wanted to stay in the army, and when he saw that Ma Chao and others successfully attacked Guan, he had to launch a full-scale attack immediately.

A thousand people, divided into two teams, one team led by Ma Chao, along the left hand side of the valley cliff, quietly approached Yangping Pass. The other team, led by Wei Yan and Guan Ping, approached from the bottom of the valley cliff on the right-hand side.

Because the stone bullets of the trebuchet kept making loud noises, the raid team of the Xinhan Army actually did not alarm the Yizhou army guarding the pass even if they made a little noise.

If at this time, the Yizhou army on the cliffs on both sides of the valley, they casually pushed down heavy objects from the cliffs, I am afraid that they would cause a devastating blow to the soldiers of the Xinhan army. But unfortunately, after several days of bombardment, the Xinhan army has not sent military horses to officially attack Yangping Pass, which also makes the Yizhou army insensitive. What's more, the Yizhou army on the cliff, in this dark night, can't see the situation under the cliff at all. In this way, the two raid teams of the New Han Army actually sneaked in front of Yangping Pass without danger.

Of course, Guan Yu was in the Chinese army, and he also estimated the time, and when Ma Chao and Wei Yande made a slight glimmer of light, he also immediately ordered the trebuchet to stop the bombardment, so as not to injure his own people by mistake. (To be continued......)